On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:55:40PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > I do remember a conversation you had with Bruno about 5 years ago when > > you were discussing what a man in Helsinki would experience when undergoing > > the duplicator experiment. > > > > Yes. > > > I seem to recall you thought the man would experience being in both > > places at once, > > > No, that is NOT what I said! I said that if Russell Standish were > duplicated then Russell Standish would be in Moscow and Washington. I also > said the vague and sloppy use of words like "you"and "he" and "I" and "the > man" is at the root of Bruno's intense confusion, and apparently yours as > well.
If that is not what you said, what do you think that man would experience? a) Nothing b) being in Moscow xor being in Washington c) being in Moscow and Washington d) being in neither Moscow nor Washington Logically, these four possibilities exhaust the situation. Only b) is compatible with COMP. > > > which does violence to the notion of "survival after copying" assumption > > of COMP. > > > > Bullshit. Which is bullshit? That you subscribed to option c) above (I did qualify that claim with an "I seem to recall"), or that option c) is contra COMP? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
